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DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille.

Real Politics: Johannesburg is now or never for the DA

Why Johannesburg is the DA’s biggest test before Gauteng 2029

South Africa’s recovery runs through Gauteng’s city halls

Restoring stability to Gauteng’s key metros is critical to driving South Africa's broader economic recovery

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MICHAEL AVERY: The unresolved problem of the post-1994 political order

DA struggles to turn ANC disillusionment into support

PA leader Gayton McKenzie.

Real Politics: The kingmakers holding metros to ransom

Small parties could sway who becomes mayor in SA's commercial hub

The week ahead: Final election push

Election countdown and the latest economic signals

Fikile Mbalula.

The court saved the ANC. Polls show it is still doomed

ANC wins in court, but polls point to heavy losses

The six metros sitting on an electoral knife edge

Who will win the battle?

NATASHA MARRIAN: Inside Ekurhuleni’s coalition quagmire

More pain in store as hung council threat looms

Geordin Hill-Lewis.

Blue skies ahead for the DA in Cape Town?

The party is facing growing competition from the PA

TIM COHEN: Diplomacy by frying pan

SA-US diplomatic spat lacks all sense of proportion

The FF Plus gamble in Gugulethu

FF Plus takes aim at a broader voter base

NATASHA MARRIAN: Short list, long game: Election loophole goes to court

DA furious over single-name PR list strategy

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and his deputy Paul Mashatile greet the ANC supporters at the party’s 112th birthday celebrations in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, in January 2024.

EDITORIAL: Will the ANC learn from the tender law defeat?

New version of Public Procurement Act will be harder to formulate

Real Politics: The Wild Coast votes without the ANC

The ANC is off the ballot in Ingquza Hill and Port St Johns

EDITORIAL: Democracy doesn’t win from ANC’s unforgiveable own goal

The ANC’s ballot blunder hurts voters

NATASHA MARRIAN: A poll where everything is in play

No more safe seats in the 2026 local elections

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PODCAST: ‘Sharp Sharp’ — Beware the death of the ANC

Rob and Zuks talk succession

Helen Zille

Real Politics: DA dare not forget Zille’s warning 

There are risks aplenty to a coalition with the ANC

TIM COHEN: The ANC needs a tourniquet. The DA needs a ladder

A stable centrist coalition between the ANC and the DA may be the only path forward

Battle of the blueprints for South Africa’s broken municipalities

The ANC and DA offer starkly contrasting manifestos on how to fix South Africa’s municipalities